RE: Distributed sniffer products

["Luke Starrett" <lstarrett () nc rr com>]

XP took me about 35 to 40 minutes to install on a PIII-600Mhz from CD,
with SP3 prepatched.  I don't really want to start the OS war again as I
don't like windows any more than the rest of you.  My point was...
There's more than one way to skin a cat (er sniffer)

Luke 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of Owen DeLong
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:07 PM
> To: Luke Starrett; 'Austad, Jay'; nanog () merit edu
> Subject: RE: Distributed sniffer products
>
>
>
> > > OK... I'll leave the XP thing al0wned.
> >
> > Understood...  It was a quick (and dirty) solution.
> How was that any quicker than the same thing running on Linux?
> (hint:  XP install time on P4/1.6Ghz/512MB -> ~2 hours
> RH8.0 install time on same machine -> ~30 minutes)
>
> > > As to the linux solution, why would you bother with VNC 
> rather than 
> > > just ssh.  Pull the libpcap file back to a local desktop 
> for analysis 
> > > in ethereal.
> >
> > SSH works, but it's sometimes nice to have a persistent 
> session that I 
> > can pick back up later (or from a different PC).
> That's what screen is for. :-)
>
> > Luke
>
> Owen